Toshiba Portege X20W-D review

The Good The Toshiba Portege X20W-D is a stylish business ultraportable 2-in-1 that's small enough and light enough to easily use as an everyday-carry laptop and tablet. Battery life and performance are solid for office tasks, presentations and light photo editing. Its USB Type-C port is combined with Thunderbolt 3 for expansion and fast data transfers. Both a fingerprint reader and IR camera for Windows Hello login. Toshiba includes an excellent Wacom pen and an HDMI-to-USB-C adapter.

The Bad The keyboard is a bit cramped and shallow and the touchpad is relatively small, too. It has just two ports and no SD card slot. No storage on the laptop for the included stylus.

The Bottom Line The featherlight, flexible Portege X20W-D shows Toshiba hasn't lost its touch when it comes to business laptops, delivering a solid 2-in-1 that's ready for long flights, boardroom presentations and coffee shop brainstorms.

shiba gave all its attention to making business PCs after getting out of the shrinking consumer PC market in 2016. If the company's premium Portege X20W-D is an indication of where it's headed, the singular focus might pay off.  

The ultraportable 2-in-1 starts at $999, AU$2,145 or £1,399 in the UK and is available in several preassembled configurations. Or you can, at least in the US, configure one yourself to create a laptop like our review system, which hit $2,099. A better option, though, might be the similarly configured Signature Edition available through Microsoft for $1,500. 

Regardless of what processor, memory and storage you go with though, all the base features and components are the same and result in an excellent, if slightly buttoned-up, tablet/laptop hybrid. And while it's aimed at business users, students might want to consider it, too, for its slim body and 2.4-pound weight (1.1 kg) as well as the included Wacom-powered TruPen active stylus

The Portege X20W's dual-hinge design lets it smoothly switch from a laptop to a tablet.   

Toshiba Portege X20W-D

Price as reviewed	$2,099
Display size/resolution	12-inch, 1,920x1,280 touch display
PC CPU	2.8GHz Intel Core i7-7600U
PC memory	16GB DDR3 SDRAM 1,600MHz
Graphics	128MB (dedicated) Intel HD Graphics 620
Storage	256GB M.2 PCIe SSD
Networking	802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 4.2
Operating system	Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)